Ready Readers is based on the Teaching the Classics approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level. While the volumes in this series are appropriate to the reading level of a specific age group, they can be applied to grades at their reading level and up.

The new cover design displays the beautiful artwork of J. Renee Illustration. Jessica Johnson took her inspiration from the pages of The Great Divorce,and just as the brilliant little, red tour bus stands out as something solid and real in Lewis’ ghostly world, we believe Socratic discussions such as those found in this book’s pages will bring upper level students face-to-face with ideas that will clothe them in Solid Flesh.

Celebrating CenterForLit’s new look with a brand new edition to the Ready Readers series!

Ready Readers: High School Literature, Volume I  includes 5 thought-provoking Socratic discussions from the text with comprehensive questions and answers at the high school level. Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context.  In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This resource is appropriate for use with students in grades 9 and up, depending on their needs:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers: High School Literature helps develop good reading comprehension in high school level students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

The books discussed here were written with an adult audience in mind. The stories discussed in this particular Ready Readers are most appropriate for students already familiar with the basics of the Teaching the Classics method.

TITLES INCLUDED:

The Ready Readers Highschool Vol. 1 Literature Guide 

The Odyssey of Homer

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

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Many parents and teachers asked for a set of example lessons to help them apply the Teaching the Classics model in their classes.

Ready Readers: Children’s Literature fills this need with complete discussion notes for 10 classic picture books.  Each lesson includes a full set of Socratic discussion questions with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.  Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context. In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This exciting resource is appropriate for use with students of all ages, depending on their needs:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers helps develop good reading comprehension in the very youngest students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Though the books discussed here were written for children, they provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.  They are therefore useful even in discussions with older students, who read at a higher level but may be new to the techniques of literary analysis.

The first volume in the Ready Readers series provides a discussion of ten children’s picture books. Although the content is primarily useful as a tool for teaching K-3 students the basics of literary structure and style, it is also helpful for introducing older students to literary analysis at a more approachable level.

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Want to see an example?  Click here to download our notes on The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare.

Ready Readers is based on the Teaching the Classics approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level.  While the volumes in this series are appropriate to the reading level of a specific age group, they can be applied to grades at their reading level and up.

Ready Readers: Elementary Literature provides the same kind of help as its predecessor: a complete set of Socratic discussion questions for 5 classic chapter books with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.  Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context.  In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This resource is appropriate for use with students in grades 3 and up, depending upon their needs:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers: Elementary Literature helps develop good reading comprehension in elementary level students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Though the books discussed here were written for elementary students, they provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.  They are therefore useful even in discussions with older students, who read at a higher level, but may be new to the techniques of literary analysis.

• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

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Ready Readers is based on the Teaching the Classics approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level.  While the volumes in this series are appropriate to the reading level of a specific age group, they can be applied to grades at their reading level and up.

A prepared discussion of five works of juvenile literature including classic titles such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, this edition of Ready Readers is appropriate for the junior high level and above.

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• 4 DVDs with model discussions led by Adam and Missy Andrew
• A revised and expanded Socratic List designed specifically for worldview analysis — 113 exclusive questions directed at worldview issues that can be asked of any book on your reading list (live explanations and guidance for each question are included in the DVD presentation).
• A 75-page teacher manual which includes full story texts and answers to discussion questions used in the seminar
• An historical appendix explaining major periods in English language literature and the worldview issues that were prominent in each, along with lists of major authors and their classic works
• Live explanations of important terms like worldview, deconstruction, naturalism, realism, romanticism, modernism, and more
• Summaries of major worldviews
• Suggestions for incorporating worldview analysis into existing programs
• Review of key concepts in the Teaching the Classics basic seminar

Running time: 3 hours 10 minutes
Syllabus page count: 70

FAQs:

Q. Who should take this course?
A. Parents and teachers of upper-level students (about grades 8-12), as well as the students themselves.

Q. Is this a curriculum?
A. No. Worldview Detective is a method for analysis that can be applied to any work of fiction.

Q. Do I really need the DVDs?
A.  Yes, the syllabus provides supplementary materials only. All explanations, discussions, example lessons and demonstrations of our teaching techniques are contained in the DVD presentation alone.

Q.  How is Worldview Detective different from the old Worldview Supplement?
A.   In just about every way! Only the Socratic List for Worldview Analysis has been preserved from the old Worldview Supplement, and even that has been revised and edited.  The new version of the DVD seminar includes in-depth explanations of each question on the Socratic List, on-screen conversations between Adam and Missy Andrews for each story, an analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation” in addition to Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” and a video appendix describing the major periods in English literature.   The new syllabus, which is included in the seminar package, guides the viewer through the Socratic method by providing answers to relevant questions keyed to the story text.  While the new Worldview Detective teaches the same concepts as the old Worldview Supplement, it makes a much more powerful and effective presentation.

Set includes:

Worldview Detective: A Socratic Method for Investigating Great Books

Worldview Detective: DVDs

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Worldview Detective: A Socratic Method for Investigating Great Books

Worldview Detective: DVDs

Worldview Detective: Complete Set

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Worldview Detective: A Socratic Method for Investigating Great Books

Worldview Detective: DVDs

Worldview Detective: Complete Set

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This 160-page book provides a full set of Socratic discussion questions for each story with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.  Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, and Literary Devices.  In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This book will help you lead your students on a guided tour of Narnia.  Along the way, you’ll give them a host of reading techniques they can use for the rest of their lives:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers; The Chronicles of Narnia helps develop good reading comprehension in the very youngest students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Though the books discussed here were written for young readers, they provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.  They are therefore useful even in discussions with older students, who read at a higher level but may be new to the techniques of literary analysis.

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Ready Readers is based on the Teaching the Classics approach to reading, which involves working with stories at or below a student’s reading level.  While the volumes in this series are appropriate to the reading level of a specific age group, they can be applied to grades at their reading level and up.

Many parents and teachers asked for a set of example lessons to help them apply the Teaching the Classics model in their classes.

Ready Readers: Children’s Literature fills this need with complete discussion notes for 10 classic picture books.  Each lesson includes a full set of Socratic discussion questions with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.  Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context. In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This exciting resource is appropriate for use with students of all ages, depending on their needs:

Reading Comprehension

Ready Readers helps develop good reading comprehension in the very youngest students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

Literary Analysis 

Though the books discussed here were written for children, they provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.  They are therefore useful even in discussions with older students, who read at a higher level, but may be new to the techniques of literary analysis.

Titles Included

Brave Irene by William Steig
Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan
Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
Fishing in the Air by Sharon Creech
Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! by Mem Fox
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen
The Clown of God by Tomie DiPaola
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

Ready Readers: Children’s Literature Package 

Each volume in the Ready Readers series provides complete discussion notes for a collection of classic stories, including questions from the Socratic List on all major structural and stylistic elements:  Conflict, Plot, Characters, Setting, Theme, Context and Literary Devices. Each question is answered in full with references to the text. Ready Readers also provides completed story charts and a short author biography for each title.

Want to see an example?  Click here to download our notes on The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare.

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